[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-127?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sy... ] Tomas Remes commented on ARQ-127: --------------------------------- I came across this as well. This problem manifests simply in the case when you specify some included group in the surefire plugin. The Arquillian @BeforeSuite method doesn't belong to this group (it seems that inheritGroups param is not evaluated at all. I am not sure why) so it's not executed. Simple workaround in this case is to include also "arquillian" group. I am not sure if it is/ is not a testng bug. You can see https://github.com/cbeust/testng/issues/313 and https://github.com/cbeust/testng/issues/184 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)